Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 13 in total of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “cartoons”.
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A Goofy Movie
April 7th, 2025 | 2 hrs 15 mins
1990s, 90s, animation, cartoon, cartoons, disney, donald duck, goof troop, goofy, mickey mouse, musical, musicals, powerline
It's the perfect cast... podcast! Today is the 30th anniversary of A Goofy Movie. While Goofy is, well, goofy, Disney's story of father/son bonding has for more depth than its dippy dog characters would suggest. We're seeing I 2 I on this film's excellence with a full Goof Troop with comedian Eileen Mayse (@i_lean) and podcaster Case Aiken (Another Pass, Men of Steel). A-hyuck!
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The Land Before Time
July 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 44 mins
1980s, 80s, animation, bambi, bluth, cartoon, cartoons, cinema, cretaceous, dinosaur, dinosaurs, disney, don bluth, film, jurassic, lucas, movie, movies, paleontology, speilberg, triassic
Don Bluth's paleontological take on Bambi thrilled audiences in 1988 and remains a beautifully animated film with a heart as big as a Longneck's. We're joined by Randy Allain and Kris Ingersoll of the Media/Lit podcast to discuss this adventure, and why it still resonates today.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
June 10th, 2024 | 2 hrs 14 mins
1990s, 90s, animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, cinema, colorado, comedy, film, matt stone, movies, musical, musical theater, musicals, satan, satire, south park, trey parker
South Park, CO may be a quiet mountain town but decades on it remains the locus for satire, profanity, and the occasional doomsday prophesy. Friendly faces Dave Jackson (the Tales From the Backlog podcast) and comedians Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Rolland Lopez (@rollandlopezvoiceactor) join us to go down to South Park and have ourselves a time with their 1999 musical feature outing that fully let Trey Parker and Matt Stone off the leash of basic cable.
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TV Theme Songs
April 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 43 mins
animation, big bang theory, cartoon, cartoons, cheers, disney, ducktales, friends, full house, music, saved by the bell, sitcom, sitcoms, song, songs, television, the big bang theory, the brady bunch, tmnt, tv
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of a podcaster and guests, who sit around debating which old theme songs were the best. We're joined by Ami Lief (creepy and kooky) and Ryan Merlo (mysterious and spooky) to round table our top ten TV theme songs.
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Disney Songs, Part 2
February 5th, 2024 | 2 hrs 7 mins
animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, coco, disney, disney channel, disneyland, disneyworld, duck tales, ducktales, high school musical, mary poppins, muppets, music, musical, musicals, nightmare before christmas, pixar, theater, touchstone
We're back to revisit our favorite Disney songs to infinity and beyond! Last time we covered songs from Walt Disney Studios' animated features. This time we're covering everything else from Pixar to Touchstone to the Disney Channel to the amusement parks and more. Returning guests Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo join us for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious massive mouse house roundtable.
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Care Bears
December 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
1980s, 80s, animation, care bears, caring, cartoon, cartoons, child psychology, dic, empathy, entertainment, movies, television, toys, tv
You stare into the Care Bear and the Care Bear stares back at you. This week guest podcaster Jala Prendes (Jala-Chan's Place, Monster, Dear Monster, The Level) drops in from the clouds to help us revisit the Care Bears franchise and how its tender-hearted worldview taught a generation of children to be empathetic and also buy lots of toys.
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16-Bit Disney Games
November 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
aladdin, animation, cartoon, cartoons, castle of illusion, disney, games, genesis, megadrive, mickey mouse, retrogames, retrogaming, sega, snes, super nintento, the lion king, video game, video games
In the early 1990s Disney animation recaptured its magic and along with it came a wave of memorable video games for the consoles of the era. This episode we're joined by Phil Head of the Spectrum Days podcast (@SpectrumDaysPod) and Eileen Mayse (@i_lean) to revisit Aladdin, The Lion King, and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. Grab a controller, some cheetos, and join us for at least 16 bits.
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It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
October 2nd, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
animation, cartoon, cartoons, charles schulz, charlie brown, comedy, halloween, horror, peanuts, snoopy
Good Grief! It's finally Halloween and that means it's time for comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) to join our yearly vigil in the seasonal Peanuts special that is the most sincere.
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Calvin and Hobbes
September 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
cartoon, cartoons, comedy, comic, comic strip, comics, drawing, nostalgia, watercolor
Arguably the greatest comic strip of all time, Bill Watterson's masterpiece Calvin and Hobbes melded artistic mastery, comedic timing, and most of all the profound sense of wonder at the heart of our collective childhoods. Guest Case Aiken of the Certain Point of View podcast networks joins us to go exploring in its timeless wilderness. Yukon Ho!
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Yu-Gi-Oh!
August 21st, 2023 | 1 hr 16 mins
animation, anime, card games, cartoons, games, gaming, retrogames, retrogaming, video games, videogames, ycs, yu-gi-oh, yugioh
It's time to duel! Jared Moss, Ben Robinson, and Ky Huizinga of the Play Along Podcast (www.playalongpod.com) bust out their decks to solve the true Millennium Puzzle - how Yu-Gi-Oh has continued to dominate the world of anime, movies, video games, and trading cards for over 25 years.